Crew on the MY Esperanza during Boulder Placement

Crew during boulder placement in the Brighton Offshore MPA. Inert granite boulders were being placed into the English Channel as part of a new bottom trawler exclusion zone in the Offshore Brighton Marine Protected Area.
The initiative will help prevent destructive bottom trawling which destroys the Offshore Brighton Marine Protected Area's protected seabed.

Unique identifier: GP1SUV4L

Type: Image

Shoot date: 23/02/2021

Locations: English Channel, Europe, United Kingdom

Credit line: © Suzanne Plunkett / Greenpeace

Size: 6720px × 4480px 18MB

Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)

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Boulder Placement in the Offshore Brighton Marine Protected Area (Photo)

Greenpeace activists on the ship Esperanza are building a new underwater boulder barrier in the Offshore Brighton marine protected area in the English Channel, closing 55 square miles, one fifth of its total area, to destructive bottom trawling. The offshore Brighton MPA is one of the UK's most heavily bottom trawled protected areas.
Greenpeace urges the UK government to ban bottom trawlers and supertrawlers from fishing in all of the UK’s marine protected areas.

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